Court records

In the context of a background check, court records can be broken down in two groups: civil court records and criminal court records. For civil court records, backgroundchecks.com offers searches of both county civil court records and federal civil court records.

County civil court records provide information about claims, suits, and judgments filed by individuals or corporations against other private parties or corporations. Examples of findings include divorce, car accidents, product liability suits, consumer rights claims, nonpayment for goods, and other similar cases. These cases can be found at county levels.

Federal civil records are searched at an appropriate US District Court. Cases are typically related to interstate commerce, violations of civil rights, issues involving the Federal government, financial institutions, etc. Approximately 93% of Federal Districts currently have docket records accessible electronically.

Another specific type of civil court records frequently requested is the bankruptcy record. We can carry out a search for any bankruptcy associated with an applicant that is recorded in the specific US District Court that you require and request. The information returned may include: case or file number, date filed, type of bankruptcy (i.e. Chapter 11, Chapter 7, etc.), discharge date and name(s) listed as petitioner(s).

The majority of companies carrying out employee background checks focus on criminal court records, for which backgroundchecks.com offers both state and national instant searches, as well as time-delayed on-premise court house criminal records searches at the county, state, and federal level.